Chapter 540 Solar Star Spirits
"Spending all my days plotting against those people, I'd forgotten what dreams I once had. Perhaps it was just a pure unwillingness to admit defeat; I wasn't content to follow in anyone's footsteps." Yun Jie glanced at Bai Mo.
"As a genius, to not exert every ounce of effort to reach higher peaks, but instead to wallow in the smug complacency of effortlessly crushing ordinary people even in laziness, is simply a profanation of that talent," he continued to add.
Purely in terms of cultivation talent, Yun Jie was undoubtedly one of the highest on the entire planet.
Even after all these years, constantly entangled in various mundane affairs and endlessly dealing with the ceaseless infighting within the Council, he still became the first transcendent on the Moon to reach the peak of Six Tiers.
It was merely that to avoid unnecessary trouble while seeking an opportunity for breakthrough, Yun Jie chose to conceal his strength, endeavoring to appear modest—neither too strong nor too weak.
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Upon hearing this, Bai Mo recalled a remark Yun Jie had made many years ago after defeating an opponent.
"True geniuses work far harder than ordinary people! What will you use to catch up, your life?!"
It was this very statement that had driven him to make several high-stakes gambles with his life as the collateral, all just to avoid falling behind the most talented people in this world.
"What about the Yun family? How do you plan to handle them?" Yue Yu gently wiped the corner of her eye with the back of her hand, asking as if delivering a final testament.
To ordinary people, this was not much different from a parting of life and death, so asking for last wishes was normal. Even if they were fortunate, they might only meet again fifty years later, and if unlucky, it would truly be a permanent farewell.
"I've already given them thirty years of wealth and glory; I owe them nothing now." At this moment, Yun Jie, too, gradually revealed the deep-seated indifference characteristic of a high-tier transcendent.
Apart from the very few who could truly enter his heart, others held no great importance in his eyes.
"My dear, I'm entrusting Father, Mother, and also Ru'er and Mei'er to you. If you truly encounter an insurmountable problem, you can find him." Yun Jie switched to direct, one-on-one mental fluctuations to convey this message.
"Why him?" Though they had been old acquaintances for decades, Yue Yu's impression of Bai Mo had never been particularly positive.
"Because he disdains being bought off."
"..."
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Bai Mo seemed to sense something, realizing their conversation was related to him. He gently set down his teacup and glanced at the two of them.
"Truly powerful. Just a projection, yet its senses are so keen." Yun Jie couldn't help but marvel at the might of the seventh-tier.
At the same time, he also understood Bai Mo's unspoken meaning from his eyes—"What are you offering for this promise?"
"I'll use this."
Yun Jie, whose entire body was almost entirely enveloped in spirit energy, pointed a finger at a particular floor tile beneath his feet.
The moment the tile received the signal, red glowing runes began to emerge on its surface, and a hidden space was slowly opened.
A terrifying burst of heat instantly surged from the spatial rift, but in the very next moment, Yun Jie used his power to firmly lock this heat within an extremely small space.
With his wife and daughters still present, Yun Jie acted with extreme caution.
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Bai Mo swept his gaze over the secretly activated floor tile, noting that it was inscribed with an astonishing number of heat-insulating runes.
By his estimation, these overlapping runes were sufficient to allow the tile—which had undergone extensive special treatment and was estimated to cost at least eight figures—to withstand temperatures of tens of thousands of degrees without any change.
Yun Jie, almost entirely enveloped in light, pulled a blinding sphere of light, even harder to look at directly, from within the tile, making the entire back hall glow brilliantly.
As for Yue Yu beside him, she instantly teleported her two daughters to a safe spot in the corner of the back hall.
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"You hid a nuclear reactor in your house?" Bai Mo was certain that the core of the object Yun Jie was holding was constantly undergoing nuclear fusion reactions.
However, it seemed to be contained by an invisible, super-strong barrier, as most of the light and heat were locked near the core, with only a minuscule amount leaking out.
Yet, even this tiny leakage had caused the air temperature within Yun Jie's sealed range to soar above two thousand degrees Celsius.
"This thing, we named it the Solar Star Spirit."
"You captured it from the Sun?" Hearing the name, Bai Mo looked at Yun Jie with a hint of disbelief.
Because according to his calculations, even fifth-tier spirit energy cultivators protected by a thick layer of Xuanhua would find it extremely difficult even to touch the outermost layer of the corona when facing the Sun.
Every second spent near the Sun, the tens of thousands of degrees Celsius on its surface would frantically consume the Xuanhua material used to protect their bodies, and under such conditions, they couldn't last long.
As for beings at the Six Tiers, with their more robust endurance, they could probably survive for two days in the Sun's surface temperature environment, but if they were to engage in more intense activities, even combat, they could only last half a day at most.
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"They mysteriously 'transmigrated' to the Moon from the Sun, causing some minor disturbances when they first arrived."
"They?"
"Yes, a total of three Solar Star Spirits appeared, one after another. Two of them were sent to the Federation Research Institute, while I secretly kept the remaining one for personal research."
"These creatures are completely unable to adapt to the Moon's temperature. Our normal ambient temperature under the artificial atmosphere is, for them, an absolute low temperature, signifying death.
If exposed to normal temperatures for more than five minutes, the heat within their bodies rapidly dissipates due to the intense thermal convection caused by the enormous temperature difference, ultimately leading to a state of 'cold death.'
So, in order to have living specimens for study, we had no choice but to create a 'normal temperature' environment that suited them.
At the same time, researchers at the Federation Institute discovered that within their plasma cores, thermonuclear reactions identical to those of the Sun were ceaselessly occurring.
But these nuclear reactions were always firmly controlled within the core.
Do you know what this means?"
"Controlled nuclear fusion." Bai Mo instantly understood.
"Precisely, they are living, controlled nuclear fusion engines!"
"This gift is indeed worth a promise."
"Now that I've told you the good news, next, I have some bad news," Yun Jie's tone gradually became solemn.
"They developed a civilization?" Bai Mo naturally mused.
"More than that, the Solar Star Spirits also possess an extremely rudimentary cultivation system.
They only cultivate their core. The weakest Solar Star Spirit can unleash an energy impact of approximately five thousand degrees Celsius from its core, while the strongest of the three spirits can unleash a temperature exceeding fifty thousand degrees Celsius."
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